I grew up with right footed wingers playing on the right wing and vice versa. It’s really easy to see why the modern coach plays them the opposite way around. The tactics of get to the bye line and cross it died decades ago. Rightly so as well. We should be proud of rovers performance today. I thought they worked so hard and played terrific football for the most part. Neither side deserved to lose that one. After the Milwall defeat coupled with the injuries to Pickering and Travis I feared the worst. Maybe we shouldn’t underestimate what Eustace is doing here - but he is going to need some meaningful support from the owners in the new year.

The best rovers side I ever saw as well @Tyrone Shoelaces. Take note, that West Ham side had Moore, Hurst and Peters in it. Three players who were in the World Cup winning side just three years later.

Going back to Grealish and City, well the modern game and certainly Pep’s game is all about the players passing the ball before the opposition can get close to them. Playing that way from the keeper throughout the team and with pace. Grealish is one who’s game is exactly the opposite. Hes about attracting the opponent then either taking them on or releasing the ball - but certainly not at pace. You can’t have 10 players playing to that strict system but with one that doesn’t. He does offer something different if it’s needed but for me Grealish is never a regular starter under Guardiola. As for City, the signs are there. It’s a rebuilding job. Ageing top class players are beginning to lose their influence. They’re now getting caught out defensively and aren’t as dominant in midfield. Some might think it’s temporary but IMO it isn’t. It’s time for Pep to let go players that city fans wouldn’t have dreamed of releasing 12 months ago. The problem is they might be playing in the lower leagues before he gets chance to rebuild back to where they were. This could take a few years?

From now on the season gets very tough. Injuries, suspensions, games coming fast, work load getting really tough. Everyone at Ewood will now that. Over to the owners. It’s all on them now.

Should have put a smiley after my post J*B. It was meant as a light hearted comment. It came across as the opposite. It wasn’t meant to. Can’t help but like him.

Too busy grinning for the press.

Something just tells me some didn’t get in. Probably wrong TS.

I think they closed the turnstiles with people locked outside? Might have got that wrong. I went to Old Trafford one year to watch Man U against PNE in an FA cup replay. Must have been the 60’s. Pay at the turnstiles that day. Joined the huge queues and just as we got to the turnstiles they all slammed shut virtually at the same time. Thousands locked outside including me and my mates.

City Dowd, Book, Pardoe, Doyle, Booth, Oakes, Summerbee, Bell, Lee, Young, Coleman – sub Owen(unused) Blackburn Blacklaw, Newton, Calloway, Mulvaney, Coddington, Sharples, Metcalfe, Darling, Fryatt, Martin, Connelly – sub Douglas(70)

The Man City FA cup game ‘69 from a City viewpoint. 42000 attendance. https://www.citytilidie.com/latest/blackburn-away-fa-cup-5th-round-196869/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ozVKwD0eAZ8THzSANdKWzChYiFoZGZI-mFXdXXfi0H-C9fApkkIzUniM_aem_CchG-xS-Uz5Q5Qr5Du2chw

Gueye’s still a crap footballer but he does make people smile. Can’t help but like him. Anyone else remember crap strikers that did that? I can’t.

Looked like it to me. Shame if it was.

When was the last time we had a team that could defend as well as these guys do? It’s a long time ago.

Solid as a rock.

Thanks for that Wilsdenrover. Ive been spending a bit of time trying to figure this out. I came to the conclusion that if photos were synced to iCloud, which I thought they were, then they wouldn’t be included in the backups. Anyway, I took the plunge just about 15 minutes ago and deleted backups and turned backups off. I was a bit nervous to be honest because I wasn’t certain what I would lose. Anyway, I did it and from what I can see I still have my photos and so far, everything else. Turned backups back on of course. By doing that, deleting unused apps I now have around 60% free space. That’ll do for now. Thanks for your input.

That’s an expensive way 47er! For me, I know deleting backups will free a huge amount of space but I just want to be sure that I won’t lose anything that I don’t want to lose. I want to know if there are any downsides to doing that.

For you techy guys. My IPad storage is almost full. A huge amount of that space is taken by backups. Is it safe, or indeed should I delete all of my backups? thanks.

To go to Hull in December, play the game in literally gale force winds - well we were never going to play attractive football. It was all about stopping Hull and grinding it out for the whole 90. Every credit to the lads they apparently did just that. What more could we have asked? This is a superb run we’re on. In the circumstances that the manager has had to work with this season, he’s doing brilliantly. So are the players. That’s it in a nutshell for me.

Hyam wasn’t behind the ball when it was played to him, nor were there two opposition players between him and the goal line. He was offside. If If either one of those conditions had been met he’d have been onside.

He was offside. However that was a superb, professional away performance from Rovers. The win in my opinion well deserved. Defensively we were exceptional and every credit to the players and Eustace. On the break we exposed Boro throughout. Good stuff lads.

Water analogy. Ohms law.

If the river level was above the top of the drain and the drain was pointing in the same direction as the current, then there would be no restriction to the drain water as long as the pitch were higher than the river. That’s how I see it. More interesting than talking about a postponed game 🙂

I’m not a civil engineer but if the drains were feeding into a fast flowing river in the same direction as the current, the drains wouldn’t back up. The drainage has been great for over 30 years now.

A number of years ago Ewood was one of the worst draining pitches in the country. The river was always blamed for that until it was discovered that the drains into the river were found to be pointing against the current meaning the drainage water would back up. The drains were then altered to allow water from the pitch to fall into the river “with” the rivers flow, rather than against it. The drainage since then has been greatly improved. So for me any postponements are more to do with either the amount of rainfall being just too much, or very possibly the maintenance of the pitch draining system not being what it should be.

Okay then folk……. Confidence in Gestede. Thumbs up, or thumbs down. Me 👎